Digital Blog Post #D - Chapter 5

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Internet Searching
   I believe it is important for students to know about internet searching because they spend most of their time using computers for class researching. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin by ranking sites by keywords and sites popularity and how often its being cross-listed with other sites. Google is great for education because it includes tools for the classroom. Some of the tools consist of search education, geo education such as google map and earth, groups communicating with other students and colleagues, drive such as word, spreadsheets and power points, even using blogger to create blog to share work. Google is a great school resource because we can use it to learn and search new information and I use everyday for my school assignments and for general web searches.

Plagiarism and Cheating

   Theses two concepts are two of the biggest problems that students in todays society have a problem understanding. Plagiarism is the direct copying and misrepresentation of someones else work as one's own. Students don't understand that this comes with consequences and in order to avoid plagiarism you need to add quotation marks and in text citation proving where you got your information from.Cheating  is when the use of technology to access information without permission during a test or sending information about the test to another student. Plagiarism and cheating can both result in get suspend or expelled from any school you attend as long as you understand the consequences there is no reason to be either one of these. 

     

Cyberbullying

     I chose cyberbullying as my last topic because it is a bug issue in schools and at home. Cyberbullying is a "willful and repeated harm through the use of computer, cellphones, and other electronic equipment". Teenagers and young youth instead of using their computers and cellphones for the proper use for school or having nice conversations they use them to bully each other and hurt each others feelings. Cyberbullying can leave a long lasting affects on the victims causing them to attempt in failing or succeeding in suicide,leading to depression, anxiety, low self esteem, and poor school performance. This following video I believe is perfect example of what cyberbullying can lead to. Please be aware of the language and the content. 

NO ONE DESERVES TO BE BULLIED 

To conclude I believe that google is a great search engine for students to use and to learn off of because it contains many great resources. Please as future and current teacher we need to be more aware of the plagiarism and cheating going o in our classroom and make the student aware if they don't recognize that they are doing it. Lastly cyberbullying is never okay no matter who the person is and what that person looks like there is no excuse for it so please find a way to stop it.

Resources :

B. (n.d.). Google by Karly2013 - ToonDoo - World's fastest way to create cartoons! Retrieved September 25, 2016, from http://www.toondoo.com/View.toon?param=10441217

D. (2010). Own Your Education - Plagiarism and Cheating. Retrieved September 25, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6glagcLVP-E

Maloy, R., O'Loughin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc. 

S. (2010). Cyberbullying PSA. Retrieved September 25, 2016, from     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpQuyW_hISA

Digital Blog Post #B - Chapter 2

Digital Blog Post #B - Chapter 2

1) Teaching methods an important part of teaching. They consist of the following small groups of activities this helps with communciation skills and it's important to me that my students interact with each other. Then you have students presentations and communication skills this can help increase students public speaking skills which is important because till this day I'm still struggling with public speaking. Lastly the last important teaching method is large group teacher led discussion lectures because as a teacher it's important to interact with my students and connect with them through a lecture or lesson so they get a person.

2)National Educational Technology Standards also known as NETs for teacher and students. The important part of this technology are the students and that's what I want to focus on which consist of the following creativity, communication, working collaboration, learning skills of information research and fluency, critically thinking while problem solving and decision making. I find that these are important because all of the following that I mentioned are attributes I want my students to develop. Being creative can bring out a students personality, communication is something whether student or teacher or any person should know how to do, collaborating with each other to produce great ideas for assignments, learning research skills and fluency students should know how to properly develop research skills and find important information, and lastly critically thinking while problem solving and decision making is important because students should be able to solve problem clearly and rationally.

3) Here are 3 point to why teaching career that matters. As a teacher I want to help my students process academic material so they can understand, process and use it in the future. The next one is what I consider to be important is we should be able to teach and reach students and establish their unique and individual ways. Lastly student should be able to balance outside and inside school influences helping them balance to maintain academic achievement. Though all these are important the second point I mentioned above because I want my students to be able to be their own person and show their personalities.


To conclude I believe that students have a lot to learn and have a lot to develop to become a better students. As a teacher its our job to bring out the best in each and every student.

References:

"Login - Register at ToonDoo - World's Fastest Way to Create Cartoons!" Login - Register at    ToonDoo - World's Fastest Way to Create Cartoons! N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Sept. 2016.

Maloy, R., O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc

Http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3PvMc0CM3Zi_blrJa4e4w. "National Educational Technology Standards NETS Assignment 1 2." YouTube. YouTube, 2015. Web. 11 Sept. 2016.

Digital Blog Post #A - Chapter 1

1) As I was reflecting on chapter 1 the first thing that stood out to me was when the use of technology first came about and I was not at all surprised to see that it was in my generation the 1990s. I have a clear memory that at the age of 9 I had my very first flip phone and then I went on to get a computer. Then i look back and they started creating all theses little games on phone that we can play. As well as for computers i remember play tetris and jump start which is great learning game. I remember when the social networking site of Myspace first came about I was so excited to have my own account. 

2)Then as I continued to read on I came across a graph was about media use of the age and hours students would spend. As Looked on and with no surprise it was clear that this new generation of kids spend the most time on exposure to media and total media use. I mean i don't believe it 7-10 hours a day on social media that's ridiculous. In my generation I would much rather be outside playing with my friends or at the park playing hopscotch and having sleepovers and talking.

3)Last but not least what stood out to me was the different types of digital technology that now exist and those concept of Tech-based library, Tech-based textbook and Tech-based learning environment. When I was ins school all we had was hard cover textbooks and workbooks no online sources,i never remember once when a teacher posted assignments online besides in high school, and the library all their was were reading books and dictionary but no computers.

To conclude its fair to say that this day in age its all about technology. I now came to the realization that by the time I become a teacher I will need to know as much as possible about technology because its what teaching is based on in this century. Its clear that technology has advanced for the better of education.

Resources:
Maloy, R., O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc.